Category: Forex

Daily Market analysis
January 17, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily market commentary: European shares are up

ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for January 17, 2020. This is not a trading advice. See details below: FOREX Friday’s trading session began with optimism taking over the market sentiment. The positivity came mainly from China, where industrial production and retail sales both exceeded the forecast, appearing…

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Daily Market analysis
January 16, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Daily market commentary: Lower volatility on gold

ActivTrades’ Market Analysts have prepared for LeapRate their daily commentary on traditional markets for January 16, 2020. This is not a trading advice. See details below: FOREX Despite the signing of a ‘Phase One’ trade deal between the US and China, which was supposed to reassure the markets and drive risk-on sentiment, trading has been…

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IS Prime gets Hong Kong SFC licence
January 16, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

IS Prime gets Hong Kong SFC licence

IS Prime Hong Kong, part of ISAM Capital Markets, has just announced that it has been granted a Type 3 Leveraged Foreign Exchange Trading licence by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC). The licence enables IS Prime Hong Kong to offer Leveraged FX Trading services to institutional professional investors. The Responsible Officers for…

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January 15, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

The challenges of 100% uptime solution

This article is courtesy of Anya Aratovskaya, VP of Institutional Sales at Advanced Markets and Fortex, Inc. The year of 2018 announced the era when DDoS attacks exceeded 1 terabyte on an individual attack basis. The definition of a “DDoS” (Distributed Denial-of Service) attack is “a malicious attempt to disrupt normal traffic of a targeted server,…

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January 15, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

BoC: Bank of Canada January Rate Meeting: What to Expect?

The following market analysis was prepared for LeapRate by Alejandro Zambrano Chief Market Strategist at ATFX and Investingcube.com. The Bank of Canada and the Canadian Dollar will come into focus on January 22, when the Canadian central bank will hold its first-rate meeting for the year. The BoC lifted its interest rate to 1.75% in October…

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Swissquote
January 15, 2020 BY Valentina Kirilova

Swissquote reports record net revenues in 2019

Leading Swiss online banking and brokerage firm Swissquote Group Holding SA (SWX:SQN) has just announced an expected growth in net revenues of 5 to 10% for 2019. The initial pre-tax profit forecast for 2019 of CHF 44 million was revised to CHF 48 million in July 2019. The forecast has now been achieved with total net revenues…

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